TEFL & ML Articles & Opinion Pieces

Lots of articles

  1. The Great Escape

    Been working in the state school system for some time? Tired of the daily grind and looking at TEFL teaching as a route to a change? Maybe as a key to travelling, seeing the world, having new experiences? State school teachers …Read More

  2. Overseas Teachers

    If you are a teacher of English looking for a course to help you develop your English teaching skills and to give your own English a boost, you’ve come to the right place. Cactus has a large selection of refresher courses …Read More

  3. Tackling ESOL

    ESOL is the other side of TEFL. ESOL stands for English to Speakers of Other Languages and is the field of teaching which goes on mainly in Further Education Colleges and Community Centres, and also within schools where there are numbers …Read More

  4. The TEFL Career Ladder

    Wherever you are in the world, hello from Cactus Teachers! In an ideal world, we’d love it if you’d tell us what you’re up to, where you are and how it’s going: you could do this on our blog or in an …Read More

  5. Cheap TEFL Courses

    The maxim that “you get what you pay for” is still fairly universally applicable – but when it comes to TEFL courses you can still do yourself some favours. To our mind, the notion of a course being cheap is only …Read More

  6. TEFL without a safety net

    You’re not alone. Some of us started out teaching English without the right bit of paper, and guess what? It worked. Didn’t it. Or did it? That’s the nagging doubt when you’ve built up a certain amount of experience, feel fairly …Read More

  7. Teaching ESOL in the FE Sector

    To a certain extent, EFL teaching has traditionally been something associated with travel abroad. Although for many TEFL course graduates, teaching and foreign living becomes a choice for life, TEFL is often viewed as a temporary project for the thousands of …Read More

  8. ESOL Funding and Training

    There is much confusion about the government’s plans to provide language lessons to immigrants to this country. Where previously a large amount was earmarked for ESOL (English as a Second Language) language classes, funding being given mainly to FE colleges, this …Read More

  9. ESOL Article

    Tackling ESOL and Community Cohesion By Jenny Johnson, Head of Cactus TEFL January 2008 Over recent months, the government has displayed an ongoing lack of vision in its policies regarding ESOL provision (English for Speakers of Other Languages), keeping both the …Read More

  10. TEFL Course London

    London TEFL courses are the most requested of all our destinations. … Read More

  11. Short TEFL Course London

    If you are looking for a short TEFL course then you’ve kind of got your work cut out. Once you move away from the apparent guarantees of the 4-week intensive, it sometimes seems that you take your life into your own …Read More